Cold Snap

[kevin_standlee]

After several days where the temperatures never fell below freezing and I was able to let the fire die out, we've had some high winds and weather cold enough to suck all of the heat out of the house. This morning, after some difficulty, I managed to restart the fireplace and by the end of the day had things warmed back up again. According to the weather forecast, I'll need to keep the home fires burning until this weekend, after which we expect things to warm up again with overnight lows above freezing and daytime highs up to 20°C.

I need to go buy some more fire-starters, and we should go pick up some scrap wood from the cabinet maker down the street. (They leave scraps out for people to take as they want.) Those scraps make excellent kindling.